With a whoop and a holler and a dash of down-home glitter, country music
strutted onto cable television last week. The Nashville Network, a
joint venture from WSM Inc. of Nashville (owners of the Grand Ole Opry)
and Group W Satellite Communications, was beamed into some 7 million
homes via 725 cable operators. It was the largest subscriber launch in
the history of cable television. The inaugural evening featured five
hours of live music by such country stars as Tammy Wynette, Emmylou
Harris and Tanya Tucker as...